Stirling's new prison, HMP & YOI Stirling, is opening its doors for locals to explore ahead of its official launch. The new facility succeeds HMP & YOI Cornton Vale.
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A property investor who sought the reduction of three personal guarantees granted by him to the Royal Bank of Scotland has been unsuccessful in establishing misrepresentation in an action before the Outer House of the Court of Session. Ved Parkash, 74, argued that he had signed the guarantees on the
A 67-year-old waterfowl enthusiast has been sentenced for killing multiple birds. Barry Nicolle, who runs an exotic wildfowl breeding farm in Dumfries and Galloway, has been given a Community Payback Order and ordered to carry out 216 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty at Dumfries Sheriff Co
The Law Commission of England and Wales has today published proposals for the reform of sexual offence prosecutions, including introducing juryless trials. Similar proposals in Scotland, predicated on research that did not use actual juries, have incurred the wrath of the legal profession in recent
A judge of the High Court of England and Wales has dismissed a representative claim for misuse of private information brought against Google UK arising from its partnership with a London NHS Trust to develop an app for clinical treatment. Andrew Prismall sought to bring a claim for damages on behalf
A record €1.2 billion fine is to be imposed on Facebook owner Meta following GDPR breaches related to personal data transfers between the EU/EEA and the US. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) initially proposed not imposing a fine on Meta in its draft decision last summer, but was overr
A note of objection challenging the decision of the auditor not to allow an organisation involved in supplying milk to Scottish schools and nurseries to recover fees for an English firm of solicitors as judicial expenses has been allowed by a lord ordinary. The School and Nursery Milk Alliance Ltd,
A controversial 18th-century monument has been removed from St Peter's Church in Dorchester.
Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling have announced a planned merger to create Allen Overy Shearman Sterling. A&O Shearman, as the firm will be known, will have about 3,900 lawyers and and some 800 partners across 49 offices. Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling have 250 years
Highlands solicitor advocate Roderick Urquhart is to retire after four decades in the law, The Press and Journal reports. Mr Urquhart was educated in Aberdeen – at Robert Gordon's College and thereafter at Aberdeen University.
Three secondary schools will next month go head-to-head in the final of a public speaking contest. Pupils from The Royal High School, Edinburgh; Shawlands Academy, Glasgow; and St Peter the Apostle, Clydebank, will battle it out for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) national sch
Former Sheriff Principal of Glasgow and Strathkelvin, Craig Turnbull, has been installed as a senator of the College of Justice. He has taken the title of Lord Colbeck following the ceremony at Parliament House, which was led by the Lord President Lord Carloway.
The UK government is trying to "water down" a new international treaty on the prosecution of war criminals, human rights campaigners have said. Government officials from over 77 countries are currently meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia to negotiate and adopt a landmark treaty, the Convention on Interna
Members wishing to stand for election at the Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) AGM must nominate themselves by Monday evening. The association's AGM is taking place on Wednesday 31 May 2023, 6pm, on a hybrid basis, with members invited to take part at Burness Paull's offices – with re
A Kirkwall sheriff has varied a contact order to allow an eight-year old boy to have more contact with his father after his mother unilaterally reduced the father’s residential contact arrangements to reduce the number of weekends he spent with his father. Pursuer DM, who sought contact
